{"id":4978,"date":"2009-07-19T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T06:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2009-07-20T00:20:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T07:20:26","slug":"while-waiting-for-files-to-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/19\/while-waiting-for-files-to-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"While waiting for files to copy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TO DO, before August 1st.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Apply 4 years of ethnographic research to roughly 60-80 pages of unwritten manuscript, comparing to (approximately) last 50 years of research on relevant topics.<br \/>\n&#8212; Hire desperate computer-savvy person to enter several hundred sources into new software and tie them into ongoing drafts.<br \/>\n&#8212; Hire or beg help to improve terrible translations&#8230; currently over 20 pages of them.<br \/>\n&#8212; Draw two portraits.<br \/>\n&#8212; Wean Kate from the pacifier before she gets herself into (more) trouble.<br \/>\n&#8212; Get glitter for the coming tooth fairy return.<br \/>\n&#8212; Finish one major grant submission.<br \/>\n&#8212; Be okay with putting all other work tasks on hold&#8230; cancel meetings, apologize, explain, and try to delegate.<br \/>\n&#8212; Have a least one meeting that would not go on hold from above.<br \/>\n&#8212; Finish lodging reservations for Scotland.<br \/>\n&#8212; Arrange camera rental for Scotland.<br \/>\n&#8212; Presents: mail wrapped b-day gifts for C, W, and R&#8230; and just cuz present for W.  Figure out birthday present and send to B.  Order\/ship wedding present.  Belated b-day for brother and anniversary for brother and sis-in-law, too.<br \/>\n&#8212; Find house\/cat sitter.<br \/>\n&#8212; Make beach decisions.<br \/>\n&#8212; Prepare two 2-hour classes with lecture and discussion&#8230; bonus points for being alive to deliver them.<br \/>\n&#8212; Freak out over all the things I&#8217;m forgetting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO DO, before August 1st. &#8212; Apply 4 years of ethnographic research to roughly 60-80 pages of unwritten manuscript, comparing to (approximately) last 50 years of research on relevant topics. &#8212; Hire desperate computer-savvy person to enter several hundred sources into new software and tie them into ongoing drafts. &#8212; Hire or beg help to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}